By: Linda Merriott Anger. We all have lost our temper at times. But when anger becomes a predominant emotion, we have a problem. The Bible says ugly, hateful words should never come from our mouths, but if we grew up in angry homes, we learned how easily tempers can flare (Ephesians 4:29-32 The Passion). When we become parents, we tend …
If I were His girl, I would awaken each day with eagerness. In first light, sleepy-eyed and tousled, I would remember that He loves me and rejoice in that knowledge. If I were His girl, I would yearn to see Him more than anyone else. With anticipation, I would consider time with Him as imperative. I’d be insistent that He …
Truth perforated his heart with his own sharp reflection. The face looking at him from the placid pond penetrated with piercing perception. He was unique, one-of-a-kind, and yet incomplete. The prodding awareness had been dogging him for days. Time so newly formed, passed slowly, one day as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day. Up to this …
“What? Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40 NKJV) I quickly recognize the scenario. In His most trying hour, our Lord found His closest friends asleep. While He poured out His soul in agony, their eyes closed with exhaustion. I shudder to think of their complacency, but then wonder: does my life exhibit any difference? “Child, could …
“A gentleman was asked by an artist friend of some note to come to his home, and see a painting just finished. He went at the time appointed, was shown by the attendant into a room which was quite dark, and left there. He was much surprised, but quietly waited developments. After perhaps fifteen minutes his friend came into the …
Holy Father, How little I rest in You. My soul is like a hummingbird, flitting from flower to flower, Truth to Truth – expending most of the spiritual energy I derive by just skimming over Your Word, rather than drinking deeply. Yet, You still hold out the Sabbath rest before me, saying “This is the day to rest” …
“Woe is me. For I am a woman of activity and I live among a people of activity!” Do you ever feel that way? I began my relationship with my husband, Mark with activity. On our way back from a summer mission trip, I interrupted Mark’s wedding proposal to pop my own question. Activity. …
After a physically exhausting day with children or an emotionally exhausting day on the job, I often find myself craving power. I search the Scripture and pray that I, like Paul, will be “strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might” (Colossians 1:11). Yep. That would just fit the bill for my needs today. Lots of power …
“Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a flask of oil.” My eyes fell upon these words as the three of us bowed quietly in prayer. On the table before us were pages of prayer requests, many of which we would never cover. Friends and family all around us were necessitous of our intercession, yet I …
When I asked Martha Kirk to do a couple of guest posts for me, I had no idea that she would ask her daughter-in-law, Hartlee Kirk, to do one of the posts. If you have read Martha’s recent post, you know that she actually wrote about her prayers for Hartlee, even before they knew one another. And today, we have the joy …
